Everything posted by Vee
- BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
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GH: March 2025 Discussion Thread
That's what they should've done. She was playing that material well opposite Kate Mansi this time last year, their conflict was strong stuff that made Kristina a more grounded heroine IMO. Then she regressed dramatically. Natalia is a short-term part they've tried to inflate so FV can keep Eva LaRue and say she's on his show.
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BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
Hot take: Vanessa’s next cougar pull should be Andre. Dani would get over it! I have a feeling those two could have legit antics/capers together, that Sean Freeman can play comedy, and most of all it would get him out of the sphere he is in which (excepting his fling with Dani) is absolutely miserable.
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Guiding Light Discussion Thread
I actually think AMC and GL are cut from the same cloth in many ways. I don't think they're that dissimilar in their sort of purehearted Americana texture. I can see why someone thought she'd be a good choice. The problem, as noted above, is that Megan was backstopped at AMC by many talented creatives who filtered her worst impulses and problem writing. Not so at GL.
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BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
That will definitely be a shift, but it can come sooner than that. I'm extremely ready to see the fallout from May sweeps and that first contract cycle, let's put it that way lol. Pamela is closer to Rosanna Cabot IMO, who was upper-class, was fiercely intelligent and articulate in Cady's first run on ATWT and was very different from Dixie Martin. Pamela is a more outsize and comic version of that same type, but I don't see her as very different yet from Vanessa myself. They will need to highlight her breeding and intellect to make that work, but then they'll actually have to give them uniquely distinct roles. Which I don't think they have yet myself. But as i said, I do think they can and should both exist. I'm really not, but I'm not hearing any direct answers from you. Is BTG trash? Are you still mad you don't work there and never will? Are you pleased with the ratings? I hope you find contentment in some other field or vocation in life. Other than writing soaps, I mean. Since you don't.
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BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
We know. And you never will. That's the primary impetus beyond your increasingly embittered posting history over the last year across two active accounts (you haven't used the third much since you got mad that Empire existed). As soon as you realized BTG was not going to be using your helpful story and casting notes on this message board, you began constantly spamming its threads with hate speech videos followed by a series of conspiracy theories about how the show is secretly anti-Black and now homophobic. Will you be closing one of those other active accounts, BTW? Do you still think the show is 'guaranteed trash?' You've said that twice before in the weeks before its debut. Like you, I'm also just asking questions.
- BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
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BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
That angle cracked me up. I was waiting for Ashley to start stroking the bald spot. Derek is singularly unappealing to me. The awkward family scenes with The Richardsons! were bizarre and seemed like they were all filmed in close-ups at different times. I like how someone clearly told Martin to smile more while woodenly declaiming his dialogue about "Young Horny Bastards!" to his teenage daughter with a big boisterous grin. Very strange. Though everyone but Martin in the family can still act at least.
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GH: Classic Thread
I think Sarah was on the inside until she wasn't. I think that happened a lot at GH back then, including probably with Tamara. The aggression Steve displayed onscreen towards her when Carly got with Lorenzo for breaking up the Sonny/Jason/Carly trio felt very real to me, and it was ugly.
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BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
It's a nuanced issue. Ron has done good work over the years, particularly in dialogue. But I think his discipline as well as tonal control and sense of taste has seriously degraded since the old days almost 20 years ago now (God we're all getting old), and he's gotten lazy and tacky. I do not trust him to HW a show atm (at least not a sole HW). And while I do think keeping Carlivati on breakdowns limits the damage he can do the fact that you can see his house style (or at least believe it's all his) in an episode with his name on it, where a character gets up to a few too many campy antics at once, is something to note. Is it the end of the world? No, KM was fun to watch. But I need Dani to start doing less, or just do other things. Anything else but more Bill and Hayley terrorism for a week or two.
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